[Steph: Californian houses use 318 litres a day? 318?! I had a lot of feelings whilst reading this]

[Liz: RIGHT? All this time, I’ve been seeing Discourse about how it’s mostly corporations using California’s water, so it’s unreasonable to expect individual households to have make any meaningful change. And I’ve been like, sure, that makes sense, we put too much emphasis on individual activism over wider movements. BUT THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN LITRES?]

For me, here in India, having a brown person write a fantasy romance novel that draws on Indian mythology isn’t actually “diverse” because that’s not at the margins of my world, that’s already its centre. In large part, this framing has its own consequences because it takes for its centre the publishing industry of the Anglophone Global North and makes these people and cultures a point in the margins.

Grassroots Business:

We’re trying out a new element of linkspam, which is where we highlight an Aussie grassroots org that needs your support. Today we’re linking to Jelly Beans, Queensland’s only specialist trans youth support service, which desperately requires funding. As of 9 November, Jelly Beans had only received $1500 of donations in 2016. They’ve launched a give now campaign, where you can make a donation. (They’re tax deductable fyi)